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VISION THEATRE
(GOLD or DIAMOND PASS access only)
Keynote Stream
Tuesday, 12th June 2012
John Sculley, Former CEO, Apple and Pepsi
• How are businesses realising real value from implementing cloud enabled solutions?
• What is the roadmap all organisations should be following to become cloud-enabled?
• What is the potential impact on the role of IT?
Andrew Greenway, Global Cloud Services - Programme Lead, Accenture
• ROI has changed with the cloud
• How cloud strengthens the CIO-CFO alliance
• Add expansion metrics to your business cases
• Summarising the current telecom position in the cloud
• Does telecom influence suit the consumer, enterprise or both?
• Best option – Why are some telecoms stalling on entering the market?
• Can anyone build scalable, highly available applications?
• Avoiding app deployment disasters
• Choosing the right apps for the public cloud
• The current privacy and data security concerns
• Is self-regulation key to ensuring cloud standards?
• Analysing whether over-zealous governance affects growth
Senior Representative, Dell
• Discussing the importance of AWS infrastructure on global cloud adoption
• The process of building for big data
• How does Amazon’s infrastructure affect your organisation?
Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon
• Understanding the precondition – getting independent security testing right
• Evaluating the steps towards better hack-proofing your cloud
• Identifying the individual threats to your organisation
Wednesday, 13th June 2012
• Make the most of your contract capabilities
• Developing loyalty while easing contract obligations
• How does cloud computing change the sales landscape?
• How has G-Cloud improved the public sector IT landscape?
• Deciding on contracts – does G-Cloud ensure no more “cartel” or recipe for rip-offs?
• Issues in developing the Government App Store
Francis Maude, Minister, Cabinet Office,
• Is the “cloud first” policy the right way to approach new IT models?
• Analysing the increasingly blurred line between cloud provider and customer
• Does cloud replace hardware in dictating IT decisions?
Senior Partner, Bain & Company’s Global IT Practice
• Discussing cloud computing’s increasing dependence on the Google data centre
• Pushing the boundaries
• Developing search to coincide with the cloud hype
• What lies ahead?
• Do you have right capabilities? Does your staff have the right capabilities?
• The CIO as a business partner: innovating new business models and making money
• What makes a cloud provider a true cloud provider?
• Analysing the shift in terminology and its effect on traditional IT
• Is the market really open to new suppliers?
• Does cloud make unified communications affordable?
• Assessing the demand for unified communications in economic downturn
• How cloud’s influence on communications is benefiting the SMB market
• Creating a secure but mobile workforce
• Assessing the implications of ‘bring your own device’ policies
• Analysing the pros and cons of SaaS reliance
• Will all software eventually be ‘as a service’?
• What role does software play in the ‘Internet of Things’ vision?
• Will security issues hamper the industry’s development?
STRATEGY THEATRE
Business Stream
Tuesday, 12th June 2012
• Is the mobile cloud equipped for e-commerce?
• Can cloud technologies allow European companies to leapfrog their counterparts in the US?
• Are internet security issues of greater concern to retailers than cloud?
• Does cloud present a solution or risk to IT?
• Creating business value with cloud computing
• How to overcome cloud computing hurdles
Senior Representative, Hitachi Data Systems
• Why the IT pro's job is changing in 2012?
• How are cloud vendors repositioning in the market?
• How do users decide which vendor to choose?
• Is pay-as-you-go the perfect fit for charitable causes?
• Cloud computing in a mid-sized charity
• From planning to practice
• Discover how to maximize market reach and profitability of your software solutions in the cloud.
• Licensing lets you attractively position your solution in multiple markets and capture demand for various software configurations to help so you can gain service flexibility and business agility.
• Learn how to avoid diminishing the value of the overall offering while effectively handling service catalog configuration and pricing models—some of the toughest aspects of moving software to the cloud.
Senior Representative, Safenet
• The virtualization implementation successes and challenges
• Analysing a business case for cloud implementation
Mojtaba Akbari, Head of IT, The Kildare Hotel, Spa & Country Club
• The business case for the Government Cloud
• Government Cloud today and e-Services tomorrow
• Putting the ideals of private sector clouds into practice in the public sector
Andy Nelson, CIO, UK Government
• Security in the cloud
• Who has successfully met the challenge?
• Does the cloud require new IT skills?
Moderator: Bryan Glick, Editor-in-Chief, Computer Weekly
Peter Ransom, CIO, Oxfam
Andy Nelson, CIO, UK Government
Tareq Alemadi, Head of IT, Office of Her Highness Sheikha, Moza Bint Nasser
• Improving performance by over 3x for the same cost
• It's time to get the honest truth and change your mindset
• How to properly consume cloud computing
Senior Representative, Firehost
• Simplify to the Max
• Leveraging SaaS solutions to simplify your architecture
• The real business benefits of cloud
• Lessons learned on a failed project
• Cloud is a strategic conversion, not just a technical one
• Beware of false clouds and phony claims
• Acknowledge shared security needs
• Communicate your business process needs
• Identify Your timeframes & establish your success metrics
Fiaz Mansha, EVP & Head of IT, Gatehouse Bank
Wednesday, 13th June 2012
• What is the difference? Haven’t we seen this all before?
• Enterprise 3.0 and beyond analysing
• Contract negotiation
• Do cloud contracts always favour the vendor?
• Setting the scale – analysing how cloud sourcing contracts differ depending on the end-user
• What contractual points should be negotiated?
• Why are platform tools deemed the best option for developers?
• Evaluating the complexities of building on an external platform
• The great PaaS lock-in debate
François Déchery, VP of International Business Development, CloudBees
Megan Richards, Acting Deputy Director General, DG INFSO, European Commission
• Cloud security issues and the process of encrypting data
• Using safe harbouring to counter regional data protection laws
• Quantum computing, the future and its potential for ‘100% security
• Can we afford the effort to investigate?
• Why do we still have a security problem?
• Writing effective information security policies
• Lessen your need for specialized and/or dedicated in-house IT support staff
• Serve your customers more efficiently and open up communication with them
• Help your company adjust more readily to new forces and changing situations
Justin Pirie, Director of Communities and Content, Mimecast
• Is identity management immature?
• Information security– myth vs. truth
• How do you ensure compliance, especially with regulatory standards
Glyn Hughes, Technology Director, G4S
• How Dirty is your Data
• Practical challenges in introducing a Renewable Energy (RE) policy into your overall procurement policy
Andrew Hatton, Head of Information Systems, Greenpeace
Peter Cochrane, Co-Founder, Cochrane Associates
• Listening to the business & understanding its requirements
• Picking the right IT services to begin with
• Policy enforcement and monitoring
• PaaS becomes the overhyped buzzword for 2012
• Business chores moving to the cloud
• Seeing beyond the cloud to cloud 2.0
Daniel Saks, President and CEO, AppDirect
DEVELOP THEATRE
Technical Stream
Tuesday, 12th June 2012
• Demystifying cloud’s most technical aspects
• Finding the easiest route to success for your IT stack
• Top technology trends for the next five years
• Accumulating large volumes of information in a database is no longer an obstacle
• Deriving actionable insight via big data analytics
• Organising your data libraries
• How is cloud working with legacy IT, from infrastructure to applications?
• Can cloud be governed and managed as effectively as traditional IT?
• The long game is the only game
Graham Hobson, CTO, PhotoBox
• Who is who in the cloud?
• Creating the right dialogue between vendor and consumer
• The foundation for complete vendor cloud computing strategy
• Pursuing quality, and why you will never catch it
• Fundamental requirements of successful testing in the cloud
• How is testing cloud based applications different from testing on premise applications?
• Addressing tomorrow’s workloads
• Is desktop virtualization a cost-effective first step?
• Scaling virtual server environments
• Nullifying unnecessary threat to your data
• The problem posed by privileged accounts
• How can the cloud path be audited effectively?
• Legal issues aside, cloud data storage requires executive guidelines
• Unified storage and the cloud are two sides of the same coin
• Which technologies and companies should you be watching?
Senior Representative, Interxion
• How do the legacy systems that remain behind cooperate with new cloud based systems and processes?
• Will systems that support an application that are part legacy and cloud break?
• If an error occurs who at the cloud provider can respond in a timely manner?
• Storage appliances for primary data: Addressing cache, scalability
• Will you use the hybrid product for primary or near-line data?
• How will the hybrid approach affect backup?
• Know What's Where in the cloud - and prove It
• Defining your individual paradigms
• Don't underestimate the importance of positive user experience
• Establishing on-going control of how your data is used
• Implementation without disruption
• Incorporating the automation of IAM processes
Wednesday, 13th June 2012
• Deciding what to take out before you build
• Can you simplify your information security while building cloud?
• Leverage the power of cloud computing while retaining the flexibility and open standards to support your existing IT infrastructure
• With power comes great responsibility
• Measuring performance: how to match your specific needs to various environments
• How to make application lifecycle management more agile
• Choosing the best options for deploying and managing applications
• Building infrastructure as a service
• Correctly planning your IT future
Senior Representative, Visual Network Systems
• Is your CRM really cloud-based? Don’t get confused by trendy terminology
• Privacy laws. Where is your data?
• Get your staff on board - How do we measure adoption?
Evangelos Kotsovinos, VP, Morgan Stanley
• SOA governance technology begins to provide true value
• Centralised sharing of services becomes a focus
• Defining ground rules for development, maintenance, and usage of the SOA
• Evaluating the need for a multi-faceted DR
• A DR strategy that makes sense
• Say goodbye to the constant worry that comes with running a business
• Does hybrid cloud still provide unnecessary security issues?
• Managing the data exchange between private and public cloud
• Making the cultural shift – assessing changes beyond tech and security
Mark Adams-Wright, CIO, Suffolk County Council
• Building a shared services model
• G-Cloud, cloud first and the journey so far
• Across the globe - New opportunities for emerging suppliers and SMEs
• Are DLP and public cloud computing effectively an oxymoron?
• Clouds have to be better than the environments they replace
• Unpacking DLP
• More of solutions than components
• Assessing success-based pricing
• Preparing your IT systems for the pitfalls of web-based software
• Taking the patterns you have to use on a large scale
• Scalability, interoperability, and security
• New technologies and use cases for cloud computing moving forward
CONNECT THEATRE
Social & Mobile Stream
Tuesday, 12th June 2012
• Evaluating the integration of social tools into the collaborative workflow
• Why digital natives are affecting your workforce
• Ensuring a positive return on investment from going social
• Assessing the Rackspace study into future cloud computing users
• How do businesses shape consumer understanding and build trust in cloud?
• The impact and legal implications of managing online ‘treasure chests’
• Configure your environment to maximize your mobile workforce experience
• Remote access scenarios
• Authentication methods for sharepoint web sites
• Evaluating the difference between VoIP and Unified Communications
• Applying a step-by-step process to find the best UC applications
• Identifying the Communication “Hot Spots” that can be eliminated or economised with UC
• Creating a unified cloud management strategy for your business
• Ticking the box – the cloud computing cheat sheet
• Analysing the substantial payoffs and challenges of cloud
• The difference between Social CRM and other social tools for enterprise
• Why cloud computing has enhanced CRM capabilities in the workplace
• Does the ‘Facebook generation’ demand social CRM?
• Lessons from the front line
• Implementing a cloud-base help desk system
• Powered by the social, mobile and cloud revolutions of today
• Socialising web content management
• Could consumerization revolutionize public sector IT?
Peter Clarke, CTO, IS Division, Department of Economic Development, Isle of Man Government
• APIs take distribution to its logical limit
• Technical scenarios and architectures
• Using APIs to integrate your platform with external systems
• Is the cloud model more profitable for app developers?
• Developing web-based mobile applications at speed
• Enabling mobile technologies
Senior Representative, Ping Identity
• Are CIOs ready to bite?
• Which operators have voiced an interest to become cloud service providers?
• Why should some operators not enter the cloud service providing arena?
Wednesday, 13th June 2012
• The business risk of lost laptops
• Keys to a successful implementation: Learning from experience
• Adoption issues on everyone’s mind
• The background (current platform, limitations etc)
• The challenges (multiple locations, timescales etc)
• The programme (phased approach, objectives, deliverables etc)
• The results (5,000+ employees migrated to Gmail, Calendars and Chat)
• Assessing the main concerns associated with an IT-literate workforce
• The effects associated with cloud sprawl
• How does the IT department adapt to retain control?
• The journey on social business, cloud and consumerisation
• Bupa Live, a global employee community
• Impacts and challenges of consumerisation and evolution to the cloud
Andrew Easton, Head of Technology Strategy and Architecture, Shared Services & Bupa Cloud, Bupa
• Pros and cons?
• What came first for mobile phone – the native app or Web app?
• What is the market share today? How is this expected to change?
• The ubiquity of connected devices means the only way for core games to retain players is the cloud
• Bridging the gap between industry and consumer
• Understand what customers actually expect from cloud gaming services and delivering the must-have products
• How are Higher Education Institutions using cloud to communicate?
• Helping educators, administrators, and staff streamline communications
• Reducing costs while improving staff productivity
• Making online shopping a truly interactive experience
• Accelerate marketing traction, grow your market
• Connect the enterprise to the rest of the business ecosystem?
• Hosted unified communications vs. in-house UC deployment
• How do cloud communications work in private cloud computing?
• What security measures must be taken
• Managing the Cloud ecosystem end-to-end for the Telecom operator
• The impact of cloud-based services on the MNOs
• Do operators see third parties as short term suppliers whilst they develop a long term cloud mobility strategy?
• Watch the content you want, when you want, where you want
• So what’s in it for the operator?
• Assessing the IT industry’s influence on TV
• A competitive advantage today, a competitive imperative tomorrow
• Beyond blogs, tweets and Facebook statuses
• The Future is Here – Social’s effect on search
